no war but class war
Sam Zell was doing the same shit in the '00s (and still is) and even in the same area https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-05-27-0705260052-story.html this one ended up with my grandmother losing her retirement plans she financing.
There's always scams and they often target those most vulnerable who can't fight back. You'd think there should be some protections or safety nets but gods of capitalism require blood sacrifices
Florida is going to be so pissed at TST for getting all this PR and fund raising while adding to their impressive list of accomplishments listed below:
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Doubt they care. They do anything to uphold a two party system where they can raise campaign contributions from the same corporate interests that also contribute to radical regressives, while at the same time being able to hold some offices solely by being the marginally less shitty party (at least publicly). Ranked choice makes a third party a viable option and the Democrats as a political party with no real stances doesn't make sense in the world where they aren't the sole alternative.
Was is ever not completely under capitalism? As far as I've seen they were always fully going with hype over substance posturing
0% interest would have been better but the banks that process/hold the government guaranteed loans would no longer profit so they aren't going to let that happen.
Pure enshittification, squeezing both sides. I had no idea on this part but that would explain a lot, fuckin wild
Here's how that worked: when you ran a query like "children's clothing," Google secretly appended the brand name of a kids' clothing manufacturer to the query. This, in turn, triggered a ton of ads – because rival brands will have bought ads against their competitors' name (like Pepsi buying ads that are shown over queries for Coke).
Here we see surpluses being taken away from both end-users and business customers – that is, searchers and advertisers. For searchers, it doesn't matter how much you refine your query, you're still going to get crummy search results because there's an unkillable, hidden search term stuck to your query, like a piece of shit that Google keeps sticking to the sole of your shoe.
But for advertisers, this is also a scam. They're paying to be matched to users who search on a brand name, and you didn't search on that brand name. It's especially bad for the company whose name has been appended to your search, because Google has a protection racket where the company that matches your search has to pay extra in order to show up overtop of rivals who are worse matches. Both the matching company and those rivals have given Google a credit-card that Google gets to bill every time a user searches on the company's name, and Google is just running fraudulent charges through those cards.
There are no humans on the internet
City officials said they will continue to monitor the situation.
Great, that's helpful. /s
The president has been dogged by pro-Palestinian protesters at his public events for months, with his team now taking steps to shield him from the public shaming over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Biden has had to switch to smaller events, the locations of which are kept hushed until the last possible moment to evade protesters
Love to see the direct addition but JFC Biden will do anything to avoid ending aid to genocide and anything to avoid representing voters' stances. "Oh while trying to secure the election I'll just have smaller unannounced rallies instead of pulling my head out of my ass"
Yep, better disclaimers are inevitable. When they call it a 'feature' it isn't getting fixed
Yay more ragebait from Washington Post editorial/opinion pieces!
That's really fucked up, hopefully he's not a teacher anymore
I'm going to need some reminding
Same area, st Charles and Elgin are one town apart. It's been a while since I checked but I think $100k-200k would be the average house price in the area. I'm a little closer to the city than those burbs and tiny foreclosures that aren't even up to code can be 200k.
So yeah that might be rich compared to some areas but for this area it's not but all surprising.
This news are actually quite similar. You'll find in both people investing heavily, most of their retirement savings, to establish themselves and then the management company or property owner jacking up the rent to the point where people can no longer live there and have to abandon their investment/retirement fund. Not too complicated of a comparison really.
That was one of my favorite features of the Nexus one. Didn't really need the track ball but being able to customize the color of notification light (I forget if that needed root or not) based on app was great. I'm guessing it must have been persistent blinking otherwise my current edge lighting notification would scratch the same itch, couldn't be just nostalgia on my part...
Because TST is shit and can't follow through on their promises and use the courts to go after dissenters.
Plenty of reading at https://queersatanic.com/articles/ but a pattern becomes visible pretty quickly.
Wouldn't the api hit the cloud, isn't it just a different interface?
That's an assumption. 1 these aren't all houses, some of these are small rooms. Looking the place up I've actually been there, some folks end up there for PT or hospice and I can tell you the place aint swank. 2 They could afford the 1.3K monthly fee they expected, sheeeet that's about what I was paying for a one bedroom in the city in not a particularly great area and I didnt have the assisted living aspect that River Glen provides which I assume is the biggest cost. it's not a surprise that they couldn't handle it going up to $6K a month. can you handle your rent going up 300%? Also you gotta keep in mind these are olds. They probably bought their house back forever ago and with housing prices here, and from what it sounds like damn near everywhere, the value of their houses have just been going up like crazy. That doesn't necessarily mean they have money, they probably sold their house or whatever and that's how they managed to get that hefty down payment.
In the end in both scenarios they sunk what they had into a thing that was supposed to last them to the end, the didn't have much left after that and now the terms of the agreement have changed and they can only pray the terms of the agreement don't change further. I get not wanting to side with perceived rich people and prices vary by region. you can feel different about that if you want but they aint all that different of situations
Thanks for the link! Incredible
A lot of the articles in the earlier link have links within to additional sources many of them are links to court documents but some are needs stories like this one. https://www.newsweek.com/orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-accusations-lawsuit-1644042 obviously Newsweek isn't great but I'm on Mobile atm and it's the first one I found, I'm sure you can find more and from better sources in their article or a search and a lil time
gotta make the water hard too, doesn't work without hard water
"They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg
Always good to keep in mind